Give Diplomacy a Chance

It’s been 38 years since United States lost one of it’s closest allies in the Middle East, Iran, to a revolution that sparked out of a political experimentation that angered the majority of the Iranian population to the point of embassy hostage crisis. Since then, there has been a brutal cold war sanctioned against Iran by United States and all of its not yet lost allies, which can technically be the world’s most influential countries, from United Kingdom to Israel. After 9/11, hopes of Iran and United States breaking the cold barrier became visible as both countries now had a dangerous common enemy, Al-Qaeda, and Iran announced their interest in cooperation. However, President George W. Bush managed to mix up the medicine and categorized Iran as a member of “Axis of Evil” with no explanation, and everyone’s hope kept getting colder. A couple of months ago, the world just found out a weakness to this cold and all acted together to end it once and for all, so the warm would take over. The whole world saw the opportunity and was more certain than ever before that they had the right cure for this 38 years enmity. The whole world except three groups, the republicans in United States, The Saudi Government and the Israeli Government. Iran’s Nuclear Deal can be named as one of world’s biggest accomplishments towards peace via diplomacy. It rids Iran of all its capabilities to make nuclear weapons, while keeping a basic nuclear infrastructure for power and opens up the economy that has been under heavy sanctions for these 38 years. The deal is to be renewed in about 10 years, but the opposition to this deal is worried what would happen after this 10 years and they demand a “better deal”. A “better deal” in their opinion is a deal that completely strips Iran of its right to have any nuclear power, to have a regime change and to have the country’s military under control, which in layman’s term, as some senators directly said, Iran should open up for an invasion by a stronger country such as United States to become “civilized”. Even though Iran is indeed a country run by extremists, they have been Middle East’s, if not the worlds, most peaceful and protected country while being surrounded by world’s most dangerous terrorists. Even though some Iranian leaders have announced questionable threats, Iran hasn’t attacked any country in the past two centuries. If Iran were to be attacked/invaded by a coalition just like how Iraq was invaded for the threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction, later to proven false, the whole situation for Middle East and the world would be disastrous. So it is always good to give diplomacy a chance.

Ahmad Mir Mohammad Sadeghi